Tasogare-iro no Uta Tsukai:Volume2 Interval Play

Interval Play: It was Invited by the Cold Summer Wind

A cold wind mixed with the gentle breeze that was filled with heat and humidity. Even at this time in summer, the weather suddenly pulled this fickle prank. Exposing his body to the wind that cooled down his skin, Klaus Yung Gillshuvesher closed his eyes.

……Has it already been a year?

He could still clearly remember every word and sentence in the argument with his daughter a year ago.

'Why, why am I the only one who has to do such a thing?!'

Last year’s hot days and hot nights had been just like they were now.

—With great reverence and dignity, I carve out my name
O toga Wem millmo, HIr shoul da ora peg ilmeri ende zorm

'Other children are playing with their friends, so why is it that only I have to do this every single day—'

Ada Yung. From the time his daughter had been born, she was given an GilExorcist Spear. When she had become old enough to understand what was going on, she had begun training to be an GillsheExorcist.

The training of an GillsheExorcist. To say the least, the rigorous training was different from conventional methods. These drills began before the sun rose and had no end. Even when the trainee’s muscles screamed, bones cried, and they couldn’t even breathe, they still continued to swing the spear. When their mind was worn down and they had lost consciousness, then the day’s training finally stopped.

The beginning of the one sent back (farewell)
Lor be se Gillisu feo olfey cori ende olte

'It’s not that it’s tough. Just……It’s too pointless.'

She was the only daughter of the Yung family. In other words, she was the one who would eventually become Klaus’s successor.

Including Klaus himself, the people around her had great expectations for her. Therefore, the training imposed on her had been suitably harsh. The young girl who hadn’t even reached the age to go to school had gone through training that even a grown man couldn’t endure. Of course she wouldn’t be able to do it. From the very beginning, the training was meant for her to learn defeat.

Anyone would think it was impossible. Even Klaus had thought that his daughter would give up.

—However, his daughter had endured.

She hadn’t just overcome the intense training, but she had learned the art of the spear unusually quickly. While only being a little over ten years old, her abilities exceeded everyone who Klaus could think of, except for himself.

Her talent surpassed even the word ‘talent’, but would be better compared to ‘insanity’. So much so that even her own father had felt frightened.

It was frightening. But at the same time, it was his ultimate pride.

It was unmistakably her natural talent. Whenever Klaus was outside, he had become so engrossed in boasting about his daughter that he had been called a foolish parent. While his daughter trained, he had always watched over her from a place where she wouldn’t notice him. Even now, he could still proclaim with pride just how much he loved his daughter.

A Gillshuvesher Master Exorcist. It was a title that could only be obtained after fulfilling certain conditions. Of all the GillsheExorcists who had completed their training, most of them had been around thirty years old before receiving this title. When Klaus had earned it at twenty-four years old, he had been greatly praised by the people around him.

Ada Yung Gillshuvesher.

She was a unique, even abnormal girl who had been granted the title at only sixteen years old.

Until now, Klaus had known few people who he approved of, who were worthy of his respect. But his daughter exceeded even that, making him feel an unbearable fear.

She was an GillsheExorcist with the noblest lineage. The best blood. She had received all of the skill and history of her predecessors, and surpassed them with the ultimate talent.

However—

'I’ve had enough of this boring life!'

That summer. That hot night.

She had burst into his room, yelling.

……No, perhaps he had felt a slight premonition long ago.

"Ada. Do you truly think this path is nothing but boring?"

He muttered his response on that day.

His daughter had been crying. He didn’t know what she had been thinking of or crying about.

Did she feel angry or sad towards her father? Did she feel like she was suffering, or frustrated at being born into this family lineage?

'What about you, father? Have you never felt like that? Having it decided from the moment you were born that you would do this, and then repeating the same thing for your whole life until you die. Have you really never questioned it?'

Dreams and desires, cast everything away to a distant past (back)
ole shan ilis, peg loar, peg kei, Hir et univa sm hid

That path will no longer grant anything beyond a look back
Hir be qusi Gillisu xshao ele sm thes, neckt ele

“……I have.”

Before, whenever he faced his daughter, he had always stubbornly said he hadn’t.

But now, it was time to admit that it had been his clumsy lie.

“Anyone born into a family of GillsheExorcists will struggle with that question at least once. —I was also like that.”

There was a large tree planted in the garden. Tied around its thick trunk was a long-standing target with several thousands, several tens of thousands of little holes in it. Each day, they would always just aim their spears at that target.

“But one day, I realized.”

Just like how Reciters have <OratoriosSongs of Praise>, a song of worship is passed down by GillsheExorcists. The meaning behind the lyrics was concealed in the Serafeno Musical Language.

My path is nowhere else but here
Hir be qusi Gillisu xshao ele sm thes, neckt ele

It wasn’t meant to be told to anyone. That path was the one each person chose for themselves.

'……Father, I don’t understand.'

“It’s not that you don’t understand. You just haven’t realized it yet.”

‘gil’ means ‘ahead’ in the Serafeno Musical Language.

‘ilis’ means ‘desire’ in the Serafeno Musical Language.

It was the origin of the Gillshe’sExorcists’ name. Why was it that her father still hadn’t taught her something as fundamental as this?

Because he hoped that she would realize it for herself.

Protector who stands farther ahead than anyone else
——[gillisu]

For someone, this path will surely……

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